The Guide to Woodworking with Kids

Age range 6 to 14.

Introduce children to the craft of woodworking and watch their executive function skills thrive...

The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is a culmination of craftsman Doug Stowe's four-decade career in woodworking and twenty years of working with K-12 students in his Wisdom of the Hands woodworking class in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. 

This comprehensive guide offers step-by-step instruction for teachers, parents and grandparents to offer safe woodworking opportunities to their students and kids as a way of developing a wide range of valuable life-skills. Based in part on the philosophies of Froebel's Kindergarten and Educational Sloyd, this book illustrates the importance of doing real, hands-on activities in school and at home that enable students to:

• Think things through for themselves
• Develop skill, originality and inventiveness 
• Explore their own self-interests 
• Plan, organize and execute meaningful work 
• Prepare to profitably employ leisure time 
• Be handy and resourceful 
• Develop both character and intellect 
• Create useful beauty to benefit family, community and self

The Guide to Woodworking with Kids is more than a woodworking book, it's gives parents, grandparents and teachers the confidence, encouragement and insight needed to safely engage children in life-enhancing creative arts.